You're driving down the road and having a normal day behind the wheel of your car. You look down on the dashboard to check your gauges and speed, but you notice that a little orange "Check Engine" ...

EGR stands for exhaust gas recirculation, and the EGR valve is part of a system that does as the name implies: recirculate exhaust gas back into the engine’s intake manifold for a return trip to the ...

Two critical elements that need to be checked out at 100,000 miles are the EGR valve and the DPF. Hasten says to run a computerized flow test on the DPF filter tol show if the filter in the exhaust ...

QUESTION: I have a 2000 Honda Accord EX V6 with 76,075 miles. It seemed when I drove the car for a long period of time and then stopped and shut off the car for a couple of seconds and then went to ...

Modern internal combustion engines — including those that run on diesel fuel — require a lot of special parts and systems to prevent dumping excess emissions into the atmosphere. Not only are those ...

You’ll almost certainly cause the dashboard to present you with a `check engine’ warning light, Brett, as blocking off the Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) valve is an intrinsic part of the vehicle’s ...

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